4 smart reasons to keep an old USB drive around

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4 smart reasons to keep an old USB drive around
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Old dongle, new tricks.

Windows has some pretty comprehensive recovery tools built right into the operating system, but there might be times when you can’t actually get into the OS, or you can’t access the recovery tools in the normal way—and that means you can’t roll back or reinstall Windows the normal way either.

As a safety net should something go seriously wrong with your PC, you can create a Windows recovery drive on a spare USB stick. In Windows, open the, and search for “create a recovery drive” to bring up the right utility. Follow the instructions on screen to copy over the necessary files to your chosen USB drive, but note that these files won’t include your personal files and data—you should beIf disaster strikes, you’ll need to boot up from your recovery drive.

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